On 22 September 2017 at 12:43, <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 8:41 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Pretty sure the last testing I did with the details form Hans's blog[0]
>> the behaviour was that if the nvidia driver failed then the nouveau driver
>> was a fallback (rather than the older instructions that totally blacklisted
>> it leaving no GPU at all).
>
>
> If that fallback is working, then I guess that's fine. (Though I'm not
> speaking for the whole Working Group here... perhaps others expect it to
> always work, I'm not sure.)
>
> But if Negativo users start complaining that their computers don't boot
> anymore, then we'll definitely need to stop doing major kernel updates
> ("taking the entire distro hostage" I guess) as the Negativo support is
> important for product strategy. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
>
Please don't try that. No one wins from fights like that.
Anything further I could write on this is hard because I am so tired
of this yearly self-inflicted headache.
> Michael
>
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